Re: GIF support in 2.42 is gone?

--- In [email protected], GSR - FR <famrom@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> vgoudreault@... (2006-07-21 at 0053.25 -0000):
> > Anyone knows what happened here?  I can convert the "gif" 
to "jpg", 
> > but that is a rather silly waste of time, and the "jpg" files are 
4 to 
> > 5 times larger than the "gif".  So what happened to "gif" format 
> > access?
> 
> Blender never supported GIF directly, at best via QuickTime or 
similar
> approach, so that part must have been touched in some way (maybe
> disabled during compilation, or due all the work to enable FFMPEG in
> other plataforms). You could report it as bug if you are using
> official 2.42, and older version work fine.
> 
> You [c|sh]ould use PNG anyway, that one is directly supported for 
many
> versions and in all plataforms, compresses as GIF or even better 
(when
> comparing still indexed images).
> 
> GSR
>


Report it as bug?  Not sure if it is wotrth it.  What got me as that 
the 5 year old machine was the one with the problem, while he 7 month 
old computer had no trouble with "gif" (and they both have Blender 
2.42).  I converted the gif to png, but I will have to reassign all 
the texture look-up so that the right file name is called henceforth.

I was more surprised to simply see a format disappear from the list 
of those that woked fine until now.


CBVG






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